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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLoads of Irregularities in the GOP Conduct
The GOP is all over the word "irregularity" There are ways to respond that turn the word on them and should be used anytime a politician or outraged trump supporter mentions irregularities. Feel free to add to the list.
It is not irregular for people to be disappointed if they lose an election, it is irregular not to concede when you lost.
It is not irregular for losing candidates to ask for recounts. However, it is irregular to ask for recounts when the election is not close.
Further, it is highly irregular for candidates to factually challenge the results of the recount and not concede when the recount establishes that yes you did, in fact, lose.
It is not irregular (although divisive) for supporters of a candidate to refer to the right to go to court or claim that a candidate still has legal rights. It is irregular for anyone to continue to claim that anyone who filed and lost over 50 cases in a month has not had his day in court or not already exercised his or her legal rights.
Then there is a whole list of pure irregularities.
It is irregular for a candidate to pursue "overturning" an election. You only overturn what you have lost.
It is irregular for a remedy in voting to claim you win by only disenfranchising your opponents votes.
It is irregular for a state attorney general to file a case challenging another state's election laws.
It is irregular to challenge a presidential election at the county, state, or federal level after the vote counts have been certified at these levels.
It is irregular to hint that you may not leave the white house.
It is irregular in the lame duck 2 months after losing an election, to change the heads of multiple agencies and cabinet positions including the departments of defense and justice since they are going to be changed anyhow 2 months later.
Finally, it is most irregular for public servants in the house and senate to act against their oaths of office, not acknowledge reality, and act to increase divisions in a country by silence and making public lies only to avoid the wrath of a losing candidate with a temper tantrum who has had his vote, his recount and his day in court.
In particular that last irregularity should be shoved into the face of every representative and senator who continues to weasel and say there were "irregularities"
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Every incumbent Repuke needs to be VOTED OUT of office. Then they should be told they're not wanted back. Go destroy some other country if you must, but leave us alone!
underpants
(182,788 posts)judesedit
(4,438 posts)It is irregular to install a Supreme Court Justice during an election after touting it unethical for the prior administration to do so many months before an election.
It is irregular to dismiss any evidence and/or witnesses during an impeachment trial of an obviously guilty pResident.
Everything this Senate, it's leader, the pResident, his appointees have done is irregular.
Please tell me one procedure that's followed normal precedent.
Rilgin
(787 posts)I totally forgot the supreme court but these are big ones. It is not irregular for minor hypocrisy and lying but the current GOP breaks every norm in these areas